Merle Watts wrote: > im trying to set up an http server. > > i have the server all set up and working the way it should, i can > view my index.html > > however, i had to manually set the permisions to the file. i had to > change the group to apache and set read and execute privilages for > that group on the file. > > this will turn to a big problem when i place my 800 meg worth of > pictures and files into this folder. > > is there a way to set it so that every file in this folder, the > var/www/html, is set to the appache group with read and execute > turned on? > > I did not have this problem when I was using mandrake.
Sounds like a problem with the default SELINUX settings. FC3 ships with SELINUX enabled. To disable it, edit /etc/sysconfing/selinux and set the SELINUX variable to disabled and reboot. There are probably less drastic mesasures you can take, but this is what I did. --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
